During a recent yoga session an 8 year old boy found it hard to settle during the relaxation at the end. At one point, I asked him to lie still, breathe, relax, be more 'yogic', stop making noises, laughing and distracting the others.

Upon reflection, I realised that he was the better teacher at this point than me and this was the end of week 'silly' stress release he needed and not my oms and quiet time.

I've looked more into 'laughter yoga', and have so far found these benefits -